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Definition

Major soil group:

05 brown soils

With dominantly brownish or reddish subsoils and no prominent mottling or greyish colours (gleying) above 40 cm depth. They are developed mainly on permeable materials at elevations below about 300 m.0.D. Most are in agricultural use.

Soil Group:

8 paleo-argillic brown earths

Loamy or clayey, with an ancient reddish or reddish mottled, clay-enriched subsoil formed, at least in part, before the last (Devensian) glacial period.

Soil Subgroup:

1 typical paleo-argillic brown earths

(unmottled)

Soil Series:

light loamy material over lithoskeletal sandstone

Brief Profile Description

In Soil Associations (with WRB classification of this series in each association)

Photos

Surveyed profiles in LandIS

National Soil Inventory Sites: 0

Representative Profiles: 0

Auger Bores: 0

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